Senior Manager, Change Management

Job Description

About Constellation Brands 

If you have taken a moment to toast with a glass of wine, celebrate with a cocktail, or relax with a bottle of beer, chances are that you’ve shared that moment with us. For more than 75 years, we’ve led the beer, wine, and spirits industry by building admired brands that delight our consumers. Our portfolio balances iconic brands, such as Corona and Modelo, with exciting gems, such as Prisoner Wine Company and High West.  

About the Employee Experience 

• Product Allowance so you can kick back and relax with Constellation’s awesome products. 

• Summer hours where we have half days on Fridays 

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $10,000/year so you can continue feeding your brain 

• Ongoing learning opportunities, development experiences, and mentorship programs 

• Occasional team building meetups 

• 160 hours of PTO with 13 paid holidays 

• Life/Work Balance? We're all about it. We offer much more than just health care benefits. Our innovative programs and resources are designed to support physical, mental, and emotional well-being for you and your family. 

About You 

We’re not here to put you in a box, but- like our brands- we have found that a particular blend of attributes and mindsets successfully make up an “outstanding candidate cocktail” Recipe as follows: 

• Equal parts willingness to put ambitious ideas forward and continuously innovate and improve 

• Strong pour of risk-taking, change agility with a dash of sensitivity to navigating an enterprise size company 

• Garnish with a passion to develop yourself and those you work with   

About the Position

The Senior Manager, Change Management will serve as a strategic partner, coaching sponsors, stakeholders and project team members and building strategies and tactics to drive change readiness and faster adoption. The Senior Manager, Change Management will support enterprise-wide operating model, ways of working, process and system implementation changes, and will facilitate change management training and development training. The Senior Manager, Change Management will be responsible for creating and leading change management plans and programs for transformational initiatives. 

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic partner to Sr. Leaders and Project Leads by providing end-to-end thought partnership for critical initiatives, bringing recommendations and preparing senior leaders to lead through change.

• Provide dedicated, strategic change management leadership for complex, large-scale organizational changes and projects, including partnering with consultants to deliver holistic transformations across operating models, people, processes, and technology.

• Coach and/or mentor leadership and cross-functional project teams in the development and application of the change management strategy for their initiatives.

• Develop and implement customized, structured change management strategies and plans, inclusive of metrics that signal change adoption, while adhering to our foundational ADKAR/Prosci methodology.

• Conduct organizational readiness, change and stakeholder impact assessments to inform the broader change management plan.

• Identify points of resistance and develop corresponding mitigation plans.

• Create actionable deliverables for the key change management levers such as communication & engagement plans, leadership activation, employee readiness, training, resistance management, metrics monitoring, and reinforcement plans.

• Draft targeted, audience-specific communications to drive awareness and boost engagement and readiness for change initiatives.

• Build change management roadmaps and workplans (project management for change management) and ensure project teams are coordinated in relation to change activities.

• Create and manage measurement systems to track the adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual changes.

• Deliver change management processes and tools that are simple to understand and can be widely applied across the organization.

• Lead customized change management workshops to educate and enable project teams, leaders, and other key individuals so they can successfully implement change efforts that move the business forward.

• Support senior leader onboarding through planning, coaching, facilitation, and engagement activities to ensure successful integration into the team and organization.

• Prioritize project work to juggle multiple projects seamlessly.

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS in HR, Communications, Business Administration, Finance or related Business field and 7+ years related business experience

• Demonstrated experience and expertise in change management principles, methodologies and tools, and change management certification

• Ability to think on your feet and demonstrate real-time agility in times of high pressure.

• Strategic thinker with challenger mindset to help guide leaders and employees across the organization achieve results quickly.

• Ability to influence others, gain alignment, and move toward a common vision or goal.

• Ability to coach executives to inspire and motivate teams.

• Process improvement, transformation, and ways of working expertise.

• Exceptional communication skills – both written and verbal. Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations to align team members towards a common goal.

• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships.

• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.

• Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics.

• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.

• Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of dedicated Change Management experience.

• Cross-US/MX experience; bilingual is ideal

• Project management Professional (PMP) certification

• Black or Green Belt certification

• Six Sigma certification

• Continuous Improvement certification

• Masters in Business Administration or MS in Instructional Design, Human Resources, Industrial Engineering, or related Business field and 8 to 12 years of related business experience

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Occasional lifting up to 25 lbs.

• Sitting, working at desk/personal computer for extended periods of time.

• Primary work environment is remote or professional corporate office.

• Ability to travel as needed.

• #LI-Hybrid

Don’t meet every requirement but still thinking about it? Take a shot! At Constellation Brands, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where differences are valued and celebrated. People of all races, backgrounds, all genders identities, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and LGBTQ+ are encouraged to apply. Excited about this role, but your qualifications are not perfectly aligned? We hope you will apply anyway - if it’s not this role, it could be the next one! 

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The salary range for this role is:

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  Our compensation is based on cost of labor. For remote locations or positions open to multiple locations, the pay range may reflect several US geographic markets, including the lowest geographic market minimum to the highest geographic market maximum. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.  At Constellation Brands, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Equal Opportunity

Constellation Brands is committed to a continuing program of equal employment opportunity. All persons have equal employment opportunities with Constellation Brands, regardless of their sex, race, color, age, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), marital status, gender (including gender identity or gender expression), familial status, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions (or any other group or category within the framework of the applicable discrimination laws and regulations).